Clinical supervisors

50 articles for this audience.

• Collecting haunts: the clients who never leave your mind
• Diagnosing your ex-husband in session
• Empathy fatigue: when compassion turns into disgust
• Faking empathy for an hour
• Giving up on a Borderline before the first session
• Grieving the ones who get better
• I liked her better before she healed
• I miss the clients who needed me too much
• Keeping them in treatment for the mortgage
• Lies that help more than truth
• Manipulating the spouse to leave
• My burnout looks like enlightenment
• My favorite pathological liar
• My favorite sociopath
• My inner supervisor is drunk
• My unspoken crushes in session
• Righteous cruelty in the name of growth
• Secretly enjoying someone's relapse
• Strategic gaslighting for a good cause
• Taking a client you know you can't help
• The addiction of hearing secrets
• The client who reminded me of my mother — and paid for it
• The client who taught me to manipulate better
• The confession that shouldn't have healed me
• The day I wanted to slap a client
• The dopamine hit of being needed
• The erotic thrill of ethical restraint
• The erotic transference you actually enjoyed
• The fear of being useless when clients actually heal
• The god complex you never lose
• The guilt of enjoying transference
• The love affair that almost happened
• The orgasm nobody names: saving someone
• The porn addicts I envy
• The power trip of being the safe one
• The secret joy of a client's divorce
• The seductive charm of damaged people
• The superiority that keeps us employed
• The therapeutic use of a well-timed insult
• Therapy for sociopaths who want to get better at it
• Transference is just attraction we legalized
• Unethical fantasies at professional dinners
• When holding space becomes emotional masturbation
• When silence becomes punishment
• When the couple is better off breaking up (but you need the fee)
• When therapy becomes kink with paperwork
• When your client becomes more interesting than your spouse
• Why CBT is for robots
• Why I don't send my kids to therapy
• Why the most ethical thing I ever did looked terrible on paper